It’s not often you get to peek inside the publishing industry and read a manuscript before major overhauling. The original scroll for On The Road, for example, is more rambling, explicit and lacking in punctuation than it’s fully published counterpart – but follows much of the same beats (no pun intended.) Go Set A Watchman is a whole other beast. The story is now a familiar one to anyone who has glimpsed at a newspaper in the last few months; a manuscript delivered in the […]
An interesting look at the seed behind To Kill a Mockingbird that tries to blend memoir, a love story and the political history of the south into one novel that doesn’t quite mesh together.
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee